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The GP-led market is growing at record speed, making insightful due diligence and investment discipline more important than ever, say Neuberger Berman’s Boriana Karastoyanova, Philipp Patschkowski and Ben Perl.

Strong partnerships are critical to developing businesses at scale throughout key markets in Europe, say Marco Herbst, Greg Laï, Christian Rochat and Eric Rouzier at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

As corporates face pressure to divest non-core assets, private equity firms remain willing and attractive buyers, say Baker McKenzie partners Steven Canner and Michael Fieweger.

The GP-led secondaries market continues to benefit from innovation and shows no signs of slowing down, say Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partners.

LPs face new risk management and execution issues as the GP-led secondaries market expands, say AltamarCAM Partners global CEO and managing partner José Luis Molina and partner Derek Snyder.

Consistent market activity and deep domain expertise can help overcome the challenges associated with integrating continuation vehicles into a broader secondaries portfolio, says Partners Group’s Anthony Shontz.

Innovative multi-asset transactions and deals that offer broad sector exposure are likely to be on the continuation fund menu this year, say Jeremy Duksin and Jonathan Abecassis at Credit Suisse.

From selecting a lead buyer to rolling over carry, Charles Smith, CIO and managing partner at Glendower Capital, outlines the key components for completing a successful GP-led secondaries deal.

Leveraging global M&A execution capabilities and cross-functional knowledge is key to driving optimal pricing for GP-led deals, say PJT Partners managing directors Christopher Areson, Jolie Chow and Johanna Lottmann.

GP-led deals have been around for a long time but today’s transactions bear little resemblance to those of a decade ago, say Adams Street Partners’ Jeff Akers, Troy Barnett and Pinal Nicum.